The Dragon Boat Festival is one of the most traditional Chinese festivals. It falls on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month.The Dragon Boat Festival holiday on this year is from June 3rd to 5th .People celebrate this festival in memory of the Chinese poet Qu Yuan. In addition, Chinese people will hold various activities to commemorate him, such as dragon boat racing, eating zongzi and so on. In the north and south of China, zongzi also have different flavors. 

Zongzi are pyramid-shaped dumplings made of glutinous rice, stuffed with different fillings and wrapped in bamboo leaves.SHUNSTONE is based in Xiamen, Fujian, China,and the Southern Fujian province traditionally eats zongzi with meat during the Dragon Boat Festival.

This festival is to commemorate the death of QU Yuan,an upright and honest poet and statesman who is said to have committed suicide by drowning himself in a river.The most important activity of this festival is the Dragon Boat races. It symbolizes people‘s attempts to rescue Qu Yuan. In the current period, these races also demonstrate the virtues of cooperation and teamwork.

With the changes of the times,the memorial turns to be a time for protection from evil and disease for the rest of year. People will hang healthy herbs on the front door to clear the bad luck of the house. Although the significance of the festival might be different from the past， it still gives the observer an opportunity to glimpse a part of the rich Chinese cultural heritage.